How Soon Do The Hyatt Visa Free Nights Post?

My wife recently applied for and (barely) got approved for The Hyatt Credit Card. Our thinking was that we’d use the two free nights on our Babymoon in Aruba where the rates at the Hyatt Regency are rather pricey. Of course, the fact that the signup offer is really good right now — $50 statement credit, 5,000 points for adding an authorized user, in addition to the two free nights — didn’t hurt either.

Since that trip is coming up in July, we were kind of in fire drill mode to see how quickly we could get the free nights to show up in her Hyatt Gold Passport account.

It turns out that it’s fast.Very fast.

June 5th: Application

She applied on June 5th and was not instantly approved. She called immediately, provided some more information, and was told that because of the number of Chase cards that she had open, it would require approval by a second level manager. (Again, she doesn’t have more than a handful of Chase cards.)

They didn’t mention any issue with regards to how many other cards she has applied for in the past two years, which again isn’t all that many.

June 15th: Approved

We didn’t hear anything for a while. I was getting nervous. But then she logged into her Chase account, and sure enough, the Hyatt card had been added to her account. Within a couple of hours, she also received an approval email from Chase.

I asked her to call Chase and request the credit card number over the phone so we could put the $1,000 spend on the card. Of course, they declined for security reasons but did offer to expedite the cards via 2nd day air. Fair enough.

June 16th: Hyatt Visa Arrives

The cards actually arrived the next day, a day ahead of when Chase promised. Interestingly, we also got another set of cards three days later, presumably because they had already sent them before we requested expedited delivery.

June 16th: Purchases Made

I completed the spend by purchasing $1,000 of Costco gift cards online. (Actually, I bought $1,025 just to be safe.) I figured Costco was as good a place as any as I don’t think it’s part of any of our regular bonus categories.

June 19th: Charges Post

It looks like Costco didn’t actually charge the card until three days after the order. I guess the card isn’t charged until the order ships? Chase actually posted the transaction on June 21st.

June 25th: Free Nights Post

The free nights showed up in her Hyatt Gold Passport account in the afternoon. (They had not been there when I checked in the morning.) Her Hyatt status was upgraded to Platinum even faster, but I don’t recall the exact date.

Now That’s Fast

I had read that the two free nights post about 10 days after the qualifying spend is achieved. In this case, it seems like it was more like six days, considering that the three days that Costco sat on the purchase shouldn’t count. Overall, that’s pretty impressive given that I don’t really expect to get the signup bonus until I’ve at least paid the credit card statement.

In hindsight, it seems that ordering cards from Costco online might not be the fastest way to get your spend completed because they may not charge your card until three days later.

Using The Nights

I had planned to use the two free nights as part of our Babymoon in Aruba. Heck, that was the purpose of this fire drill in the first place.

The Hyatt Aruba doesn’t bother with such subtlety — they’re selling standard rooms on the night in question at the Hyatt Daily Rate, all the while saying that they don’t have any rooms available on points.Lovely fellas.

But for now, we found a charming place on AirBnB that we’re actually quite excited about.

I’m sure we’ll have plenty of opportunities to use them in the next year.

Bottom Line

My wife applied for The Hyatt Credit Card in order to get the two free nights. They posted about six days after completing the spend. Although we won’t get to use them as I had planned, I’m still impressed at how fast they posted.

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I had a little over $1k in charges post on March 2nd, it’s the 7th now – I realize that’s under the amount of time it tells you, but it seems to be a little on the longer side considering the anecdotal turnaround discussed here. Starting to sweat it a little bit, as a 30th birthday trip I’m gifting my wife later this month is hinging on being able to use these nights.

I hit the required spending limit for the two free nights 3 months ago. I finally called Chase and after spending a lot of time on the phone, they said that there was an error in their system and that my two free nights will show up in my Hyatt account within 5-10 days. I am hoping this is true. Just an FYI for anyone else that may have this issue.

When I asked Chase about the 2 free nights posting this is what they said:
We reviewed your credit card account and confirmed that
the offer you inquired about is get 2 free nights at Hyatt
hotels worldwide, after you make $2,000.00 in purchases on
the card in the first 3 months after account opening. As
you have met the spend requirement, we’ll post the bonus
to your account 6 to 8 weeks after the billing cycle in
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